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Permission

Also known as rights, permissions are characteristics given by users or network administrators on a network that prevent or allow access to files on a computer network. Below are examples of rights that may be available to be assigned or revoked.

All - All rights granted.
Execute - The right to execute a file or a file within that directory.
Read - The right to read a file.
Write - The right to write to a file.

Often these above rights can be assigned or removed to a single user or a group of users.

  • If you wish to see the attributes in MS-DOS use the attrib command.
  • If you wish to see the ACLs or permissions in MS-DOS use the cacls command.
  • If you wish to see the permissions in Linux / Unix use the chmod command.

Also see: ACL, Attributes, Network definitions, Security definitions

 

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